The last statistic trumps everything else. I know that Dorkin sees military spending as a negative but if you have the best military in the world that makes you the greatest country in the world, period. It always has and always will.
I work with numbers and you can make them say anything you want. As the old saying goes "figures lie and liars figure." But these statistics don't matter to me.It is more subjective question of where else would you want to live?
I have traveled to most of most first world countries and some third world too and for the most part they really suck. I kiss the ground every time I get back to the US and thank the angels that I was born here. There is no place I would rather live and it is not even close.
Europe is dying, a dirty smelly, crowded place where the population can't even reproduce enough to replace themselves. Most of the people live in crappy little apartments or houses, drive crappy little cars and you can't get a good steak. Even a pseudo country like Monaco which is filthy rich is not a place I would want to live. If you want to simulate Europe, go live in a smelly, dirty, crowded big city in a blue state. One of the liberal utopias like NYC, Detroit or Chicago. At least in the US I have the option of living in the wide open spaces of a great state like Texas.
How about Asia? Fuggetaboutit!
Japan: jammed in, xenophobic, economy dead, massive conformity.
China: repressive government, no freedom of expression, massive poverty outside the cities, mediocre life inside the cities, rampant pollution.
India: dirty smelly, crowded, polluted, unimagineable poverty. I love the people there but the place is totally un-liveable. But I bet in the liberal statistics they do good in math?
Vietnam, Korea; give me a break.
I actually like Singapore but freedom is limited there. If you spit in the street, they can arrest you and beat you with a stick which rules it out for me since I like to expurgate.In Texas I can spit as often as I like and may hit a armadillo or rattler but that is about it.
Australia and New Zealand aren't bad...... and if the Bamster get re-elected and Texas does not secede, maybe.
South America and Africa; I don't think so.
Antartica; not too many liberals like the Dorkin down there which is a good thing. But since I don't believe in man-made global warming, it is a little too cold for us.
People want different things out of life. I love my lifestyle in the US. Most of all the freedom to make my own decisions and live as I please. People who want a more regulated, gummint controlled lifestyle there a plenty of opportunities for them do so in this country and elsewhere in the world. Just don't mess with Texas and that means not imposing laws and regulations from Washington on the states. Particularly in the name of trying to fix any meanignless statistics.
So Dorkin, on this Forth of July take your statistics along with a couple of roman candles and shove em.
Written from the greatest State, in the greatest country in the world.
I work with numbers and you can make them say anything you want. As the old saying goes "figures lie and liars figure." But these statistics don't matter to me.It is more subjective question of where else would you want to live?
I have traveled to most of most first world countries and some third world too and for the most part they really suck. I kiss the ground every time I get back to the US and thank the angels that I was born here. There is no place I would rather live and it is not even close.
Europe is dying, a dirty smelly, crowded place where the population can't even reproduce enough to replace themselves. Most of the people live in crappy little apartments or houses, drive crappy little cars and you can't get a good steak. Even a pseudo country like Monaco which is filthy rich is not a place I would want to live. If you want to simulate Europe, go live in a smelly, dirty, crowded big city in a blue state. One of the liberal utopias like NYC, Detroit or Chicago. At least in the US I have the option of living in the wide open spaces of a great state like Texas.
How about Asia? Fuggetaboutit!
Japan: jammed in, xenophobic, economy dead, massive conformity.
China: repressive government, no freedom of expression, massive poverty outside the cities, mediocre life inside the cities, rampant pollution.
India: dirty smelly, crowded, polluted, unimagineable poverty. I love the people there but the place is totally un-liveable. But I bet in the liberal statistics they do good in math?
Vietnam, Korea; give me a break.
I actually like Singapore but freedom is limited there. If you spit in the street, they can arrest you and beat you with a stick which rules it out for me since I like to expurgate.In Texas I can spit as often as I like and may hit a armadillo or rattler but that is about it.
Australia and New Zealand aren't bad...... and if the Bamster get re-elected and Texas does not secede, maybe.
South America and Africa; I don't think so.
Antartica; not too many liberals like the Dorkin down there which is a good thing. But since I don't believe in man-made global warming, it is a little too cold for us.
People want different things out of life. I love my lifestyle in the US. Most of all the freedom to make my own decisions and live as I please. People who want a more regulated, gummint controlled lifestyle there a plenty of opportunities for them do so in this country and elsewhere in the world. Just don't mess with Texas and that means not imposing laws and regulations from Washington on the states. Particularly in the name of trying to fix any meanignless statistics.
So Dorkin, on this Forth of July take your statistics along with a couple of roman candles and shove em.
Written from the greatest State, in the greatest country in the world.